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* This is the replication archive for:
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* "Strategic Considerations and Support for Direct Democracy in the United States" 
* Daniel R. Biggers and Alexander Ross
* Electoral Studies
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* This version: 1.0, November 2023
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This replication archive contains data and Stata code necessary to replicate
the analyses presented in both the published article and the supporting
information.

**PLEASE NOTE: The ANES DDS data must be downloaded from the ANES website:
 https://electionstudies.org/data-center/anes-2012-direct-democracy-study/

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In the "data" subdirectory is the following file:

biggers_ross_ES_cces_data:
	A Stata dataset that contains the information necessary to 
	analyze the CCES data.


In the main directory are the following files:

01_anes_analysis_do_file
	A Stata .do file that draws in the ANES DDS data (once downloaded
	from the ANES website) and performs all the analyses of the ANES
	DDS data presented in the paper and supporting information. 
	The file produces tables in the "tables" subdirectory.

02_cces_analysis_do_file
	A Stata .do file that draws in the data file "biggers_ross_ES_cces_data"
	and performs all the analyses of the CCES data presented in the paper 
	and supporting information. The file produces tables in the "tables" 
	subdirectory.
